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Jory 25, 1874] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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w grass on those not much used. Cut Ivy 
aes etl fe of trees. Drain ground “heat off 
, and proceed with pitting on that 
nE Fhe Robini ud- Acacia i 
with stem gaem ards of 2 feet in 
e racemes of wets ay finely 
one ‘rich, lively, green foliage. The tree should 
ye planted in good s oil, and have a well- “sheltered 
ee Sass of best trees. ae timber is Ms d, 
and suitable for cabinetm: aker <- wo Clea: 
those having their sum 
i i rem e 
or in the — epartment will require 
"attention, to see that they do not suffer for want of 
a watering. 7. Webster, Coton Castle. 
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Variorum. 
“UNDER A HEDGE.” (T. Bayley.) 
[Sung by Miss JESSIE Royp at the thirty-first anniversary of 
à the Gar deners’ Royal Benevolent Institution. ] 
| A florist a sweet little blossom espied, 
Which bloomed like its ancestors by the roadside ; . 
h bloom: 
tness , its colours were few, 
Yet the blossom look’d fair in the spot where it grew. 
rist beheld it, a "ll enchant 
| Itsleaves shall be shelter’d, and carefully nursed, 
: pm charm all the world, thou ugh I met with it first 
nd ge.” 
h the rarest Diaa ate there, 
em, 
uw 
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yo 
on 
po 
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h mies glasses anil ee 
i pied 
The little pet ics when it BAG off the dirt 
Jf own native di 
ut exotics were rou on 
isa wild flower all would hav it was fai 
praised it though gaudier blossoms were there ; 
But when it assum ouse airs we see throu 
The forced tint of its i bayas, and suspect that it grew 
Ro Under a hedge. 
HAM PARK. poa Monday last this park, 
im extent, was opened as a place of public 
e Lord Mayor, on behalf ‘nd fn ay 
of London 
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‘3 
is family; ; secondly, to the untirin ng efforts of a 
edica 
local commi ted themselves heartil 
and aaloe to "the accomplis 
l y 
j li Aa ent of so excellent 
i aoa and, lastly, g = uont = the nee 
of London w all local r 
of the ed sition 
ie. Metropolis could a more fitting spot be found 
Š sucha work, he p contains 
Ha Lre u 5 gn p 7 ng large majo- 
poor, hard-working people, en in 
Useful and Bat g peop gag fai 
heres e miles of streets swarm = som 
ing in the parish no 
nate ven, Mr. Gurney, the 
‘he weg, seal Eie “ihe old pik for build- 
for it. He 
| 4S Purposes, offer £25,000 : 
| @58 tisted that he and the members of his family, 
ubli 
ver, that ugh 
el I co 
anywhere, 
a poor pari 
J. T. Bedford, hae to the Corporation of London 
who, after very carefully orgy the matter, unani- 
ibut 0,000 
m y agr ye n a ce 
required to complete the pach e n eiiiai 
public ing, held at ll, Stratford, 
thanked them heartily for their liberality. Since then 
a licence has been ern. from t ro in 
the mepe to “hold he park for ever in trust for 
the people, in iana with the deed of 
transfer, a contest tee of “og ieee m 
fro 
A Hu Fiai ST.—Among the many eminent 
botanists in a ais Sa rg ios felines there 
few yp attained a ugh know- 
r 
ledge of. plants and inaa. than ‘james We llwood, 
m para, Par pas When quite a Jos ng 
YA 
» Mr. cience 
af: Bo otany, and an aas his Tame teens dur e 
athering wild plan san fowers 
rwards 
Dumbarton, pati Argyle, Bute, 
view of obta: additional information on the sub 
j r "kolida ons, W many of 
jadis of some 
bustle of the city. "Thot 
and of a retiring disposition, James neverthe 
Baag the notice TR some of the most distinguished 
botan n the Wes indly fav 
i best 
o many exotic cae on t 4 
BEET frequently find it ynetasy tó to 
some disputed point, and ger lanaibiy they find 
ze A sare to be correct. s Wellwood, though 
n the T yellow leaf,’ ’ is as enthusiastic 
sn "the maeti of £ botens as when he first turned his 
at e half-a-century ago. Glasgow 
sie E 
CH GUIANA. —The following description of 
French Guiana is from a recent report by the British 
Consul at Cayenne. He says: 
“Very little is known of the interior, except to an 
e of 25 miles from the coast by water, 
at there are eighty-five known varieties of 
woods in the forests, from a qualityas hard as = used in 
and for posts a 
azea 
bi 
is Rm richest of lands in natural resou: 
ed an i 
reptiles and insects. Ga 
n the colony, = birds of the most gorgeous plumage 
* The cultivated part of the ome is oc dying org 
the coast from the River Oyapack to the Riv 
the average dis — inlan sienna, 
lands are, however, inters yw woods Aa marshes, 
mesg along. whole of the shore of the colony has sprung 
al rampart pn as 
oland, a dul 
groups joi orm one vast forest, intersected 
rivers a t 
faronis w rivers in French Guiana in 
separates French from 
further), and. sixteen other smaller rivers, some with 
names and others nam 
their sources, no doubt, in the vast nnahs swollen 
by the incessant s. The length of the coast line of 
French Guiana is about 340 miles, and is divided into 
thirteen quarters, in each of which is a bourg or village, 
under the authority of a commissionaire c an 
and a municipal council. The soil is clayey and fertile, 
and prod anioc, Coffee, Coc innamon, Sugar- 
ne, Rice, corn, & 
argillac 
p g meree of gold, some iron 
is the all-absorbing industry.” 
peee NATURALISATION OF PLANTs.—It 
seeds of Asclepias curassavica. Having oc 
wash the tick- pte he opened the Pa ti at the Pont 
carried off 
des Français, were 
by the wind, and the Sint has since then in 
to such an extent as to seriously interfere wit ti- 
vation, its roots running under ground to considerable 
distances, and up ots in all dire so 
rrive from Sydney amın 
n European hay. This was thrown out and ier on 
the ground where the boxes were unpacked. In 
ge iors LTY IN GAS-MAKING.—Some time ago 
e noti on a new method of heating applied to the 
Nid 
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tie and greenhouses at dry House, 
whereb eat saving of coal was effected. 
the beautiful grounds which surround Mr. Wauchope’s 
mansion a small limekiln was erected, in the flues of 
which two of puddle kolin were fitted 
p. hed to these are some 2000 feet of piping, 
xte to distant of the ho and 
the fact that an equable hea! 
o 
this appa ratus, it t occurred to Mr. Gordo rdener 
on the = Fer the surplus might be turned to 
account in ng gas n February 
; and eae e in 
3 feet long by 12 inches in the 
charge of the retort with common gas coal about 100 
cubic feet of gas ar , and it may be noted that 
the kiln which soppis heat e. the boilers and reto 
ne wi of half a ton per d lime- 
stone is used i proportion rot two-thirds to on 
ird of , and it is expected tha selling t 
burnt lime the nnected with the making of 
as, as well as the heating of the conservatories, will 
be nearly e system carried out to 
n hardly fail to commend i 
pacer her horticulturists. 7Ae i 
Notices to Correspondents. 
*,* Correspondents are speci ially requested to address 
"all communications 
“Editors,” and not to any mem 
sonally. Letters relating Me parit s should 
be rr to the Publis 
ORS. J: W: The last edition of the 
Gardeners’ ices was published in 1868. — 
eer er a G. Bell & Sons, ante 
